Welcome to the American Hanoverian Society Foundation Equine Nutrition Library. It is an accumulation of knowledge gained over the past 40 plus years to help horse owners manage their horses optimally to help keep them sound and healthy.
This Library is open to the public in hopes of helping all horse owners, managers, and trainers understand the importance of Nutrition according to the amount of stress your horse is realizing, including: prenatal and lactation needs for all mares; the growing needs of all young horses, based on how fast they are growing; and the needs of all performance horses, based on their level of training.
One of the best features of this Library is the fact it will be updated as new research is published on nutrition, as opposed to printing it in a book. Print-out the ‘Charts’ to keep in your feed room and use them everyday to determine your Performance Horses ‘Heat Stress Score’ plus their daily training level to determine how many ounces of a Performance Electrolyte to administer, or the ‘Growth Monitoring Chart’ to enable you to follow your young horses rate of growth every month to determine their nutrient needs to support their rapidly growing skeletal structures and soft tissue development, etc.
Because horses mature into continuous grazers and hindgut fermenters, their Total Diets should contain between 60% to 90% forage. Therefore, it is important to know what nutrients are in your forage (hay and pasture), so you can add the other 10% to 40% of their diet as a Ration Balancer, a Growth or Performance Feed to make up the difference between what nutrients are in your forage and what your horse needs every day to support their physiological status, while maintaining their ideal body weight and muscle, tendon, ligament, etc., development.
The views, opinions, and/or positions expressed in the contents of this online library are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, and/or positions of the American Hanoverian Society, Inc. or the American Hanoverian Society Foundation, Inc.
